McCain Questions Kerry on Middle East

Arizona Sen. John McCain questions Secretary of State nominee Sen. John Kerry on Benghazi, Syria and the Middle East.

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... I ... thank you and ... the end thank you for allowing the ... she knew to the committee and ... look forward to ... many of our spirited conversations we've had for ... many years ... I didn't want to bring in output ... since it was brought up by act respond again ... Americans do here ... if you care ... the new care why ... for Americans were ... were murdered ... we do here ... why ... the American people will miss when ... they were misled ... by the talking points said ... that the church Jerry Rice told the American people which were faults ... they were misled ... when ... the information ... that we need to know about ... what ... how those talking points were put together which we still don't ... know the answers to many months later ... we were misled ... when it was when we do we're not allowed to one ... when we don't ... still haven't gotten answers why ... there was not better security at the consulate when it was clear indications of the press ... we were misled and when we were not told that ... there was requests for the sixteen member security force to remain at Scott's women removed ... the list goes on and I'm we still haven't got any answers ... as to what happened when God see ... and for anyone to say that we don't care ... what happened is absolutely false ... I can tell you that ... because I talk to the families ... of those ... who were murdered ... and we will hear some of ours will continue ... our efforts to find out the answers to these questions the American people deserve them including ... why the Pres United States ... after ... alleging in a debate with Mitt Romney said that ... he had called it a terrorist act when in fact he had ... in fact that same day he did an interview with CBS News ... saying he didn't know what happened ... as for two weeks later ... he told various news programs that he didn't know what was it costs so we knew what the car's climate wise ... we know that people don't bring RPG some orders to spontaneous ... demonstration show ... I'm ... we are there some of us who will not ... give up on this despite what ... some in the media think we should do ... until we get all of the answers ... well I was hanging on every word that you ... were saying John I happen to glance at my apps ... here's a BBC News report ... Sands ... the UN says it's been a huge leap in the numbers numbers of Syrian refugees arriving in shorting ... Jordan putting a considerable strain on the resources ... the land ... HDR said that more than twenty six thousand five hundred refugees crossing Jordan since one January ... aam ... officials BBC that up to three thousand were writing every day ... at least fifty thousand were waiting to cross ... that happens to be the camp that ... the leaders of that ... that happens to be the camp where just a few days ago before ... there was ... a very bad storm in these tents were blown down and there's riots ... and demonstrations ... in anger and frustration ... in the belief that we are not helping ... the anger that we got there we ... sell when a young woman who's a teacher said ... this generation this next generation of children will take her pinch ... on those ... that did not help them ... we are sowing the wind in Syria ... and we're going to reap the whirlwind ... in the whirlwind ... the ... the increased presence of al Qaeda and Islamist groups which are now flooding into Syria ... as you know ... sixty thousand dead and counting ... and the fall of a side is Paul ... inevitable ... you know that Assad is thinking about plan B and that's going to the coach ... and do mismatch sequencing and having our lunch there ... I and I appreciate your optimism about the Russians Russians continued to climb and Arps ... Russians continue ... to veto every single resolution that might do something ... about Syria ... and of course ... who ... is just ... interactive were most inhumane ... laws in preventing ... Americans from adopting Russian children ... who clearly ... have ... for now deprived of an opportunity of a better life ... so ... I don't think the status quo in Syria ... is something that we just need to have more conversations about ... I think we had to tell the Syrian people that we didn't help him or when not ... we know that a no-fly zone and we know that the supply of arms so that they can defend themselves ... to counter the arms that are being provided by the rain Aeon's ... and the rain Aeon's ... Revolutionary Guard on the ground ... and is ... now hundreds of thousands of refugees and are putting ... a strain on our allies ... I've had a lot of conversations we've had a lot here ... we haven't done anything ... and we've got to get ... sixty thousand ... dead ... and after twenty two months and all I get frankly from ... the administration used the fall of the site is called inevitable ... I agree ... but what about what happens in the meantime ... so I hope that ... you when I know you are deeply concerned about that situation ... but it's terrible ... it's heartbreaking ... I'd to to meet a group of young women is I didn't camp ... in Turkey refugee camp who've been gang raped ... this really ... horrible experience ... and we can ... do a lot more ... without putting American boots on the ground ... we can prevent this further slaughter and massacre ... indeed humanity ... otherwise we will be judged very very harshly by history ... I hope that I know that from our previous conversations you like this ... her highest priority ... and I look forward to ... at least exploring and tried to implement a different policy than the one that we have pursued to the last twenty two months ... I thanked plant ... what John thank you of ... ay ay ay ay ever been you know this could you ... talk about this a crepe like ... I have ... complete understanding of where you're coming from and this is on your frustration to know what you're trying to say ... about it ... I do wanted ... to save you that the ... I don't want ... inquisitive this summer curiosity about what ... the possibilities might just with a rushing to be translated and optimism I don't about this ... hope ... because the easiest way to resolve ... it would be if they were to be able to help us it put together we are able to find ... some track that change the equation and the calculation of us ... when I think everybody worries about John ... is of ... that ... if you have a complete implosion of the states ... it ... nobody ... has clear definition of how you put those pieces back together Number one ... and Number two ... you ... have a much greater risk with respect to the chemical weapons ... now that's why I want to get in and see what the contingency plans are ... but as I can measure risk without ... having a sense of ... what's on the table ... what I do know is that they're a lot of weapons there ... there are people in the Gulf than you know they are who are not hesitating to provide weapons ... and that's one of the reasons together with the fact that down this road has been introduced to the equation ... that the movement on the ground ... is faster than the movement in the fall ... so that's ... what makes this very complicated ... and of ... I'm deadly serious when a city you wouldn't have to sit down there's nothing we need more than congressional ... um ... consensus if we can build it ... on something like this ... particularly if the worst happens and you have the the the disintegration ... there are other forces at play ... that none of us have any control over ... one of the things that struck me in the last years the more I travel to the region and talk to people is the ... depth of the sectarian divide ... and you know it well ... the Sunni Shia ... considerations ... and are deeply into lots of judgments out there ... and so we have to be particularly end and then others may be that seventy four percent of Syria ... is ... Sony is the most ... and of that you know you got about sixteen percent it's made up of ... the the the ally Weak ally and and and and some Shiite ... and in the AHL wider about thirteen percent ... Christians are about ten percent Drew's or about three percent so you have this ... breakdown with interests in various parts country ... and I know one of the scenarios everybody's talking about is that people could sort of break up often to their places and the Kurds ... to be up in the ... Northeast and you could have the disintegration and who knows where that leads ... these are the rest ... me this is what is at stake ... in this new world that we're dealing with ... and nobody could sit here ... and tell yet how it all ... plays out but who were were going to have to get our heads together ... regardless of party ... and think about the interests of the United States of America think about the region think about the interests of the neighbors ... think about the interests of our friends like Israel ... and figure out how ... we come up ... with an equation ... that ... is ... workable and and meets those interests though final comment John I don't know about it but ... I didn't suggested I don't wanna suggested nor do I believe that Secretary Clinton was saying people don't care about knowing what happened ... I think shes talking about ... the difference between ... what the recommendations of the artwork ... and implementing them ... and this notion that we have to go backwards but here's what I say to you ... after ... twenty nine years here in my twenty ninth I respect the prerogatives the United States Senate and the members of Congress ... you represent the American people you're the other French government you have the right to know ... what ... took place ... and I have an obligation ... commensurate with the ... the ... the deal ... regulations in ... the class five patients and privacy and other things or play here ... to help you get the answers and will do that ... and I hope we can do it in a non contentious ... appropriate way ... write to their badges mentioned Mr. record ... I think you would agree with me that every day that goes by in Syria ... it gets worse ... every day that goes like if it gets worse still there is a ... it seems to me ... a very strong impetus that tweets ... we realize that the present policy is not succeeding ... and to look at other options to prevent what is going on for around twenty two months and sixty thousand dad and ... I thank you for your guide on treatment term but I think you would agree with me ... that whatever judgment she may ... have to pass the test of whether or not ... if you do them they're actually gonna make things better ... and two and a half to make a test of a cost ... analysis ... in doing that ... and I mean all kinds of costs human life cost ... pressure ... effect on other countries ... US Senator ...